1. Democratic Control and Public-Private Partnerships
Prof Christopher Bovis FRSA

2. Control concepts in PPPs
Necessity vs alternative in financing public services
Risk treatment
Affordability
Structures between public and private sectors
Institutional
Concessional
Contractual
Performance

3. Control instruments in PPPs
Value for money (VFM)
Value Engineering
Incentivisation
Stakeholder engagement
Refinancing

4. Control outputs in PPPs
payment mechanisms
profit / revenue systems
risk pricing
cost authentication
service/product quality
performance management
KPIs / benchmarking

5. Control and Regulation in PPPs
Public-Private Partnerships as public service instruments
Asset treatment
Public sector role
Public-Private Partnerships as investment instruments
Financing public services

6. Challenges for Control in PPPs
Regulatory Standardisation
Acquis Compliance
Structure Regulation
Hard regulation
Soft regulation